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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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137 VOTE

export data from tables out of a backup image

Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
almost 9 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Allow the jupytertheme package to enable Dark Mode in Jupyter Notebook.

Dark Mode is configurable for the IBM data platform on IBM Cloud and is the default for on-premises Cloud-Pak-for-Data. However, this only applies to the Cloud-Pak-for-Data homepage. Dark Mode is not available for Jupyter Notebooks on either platf...
4 months ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Under review

Enhanced WatsonX.ai On-Premise Installtion with Automated Setup Assistant and AI-Driven Documentation Search

Problem Overview The installation process of WatsonX.ai's on-premise solution is currently cumbersome, characterized by time-consuming troubleshooting due to generic documentation. Without access to internal IBM guidance or an SME, users often fac...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Release 32-bit version of Informix CSDK v4.50

Some customers are constrained and need to continue to use Informix 32-bit CSDK drivers. Their applications currently use the Informix 32-bit libraries & there are often build constraints to moving to a 64-bit CSDK.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 5 Not under consideration

Introducing configurability of Case Actions combined/chained requests

Currently a case action is linked to a single outgoing action, which serves the purpose for direct actions (e.g. decline transaction). However, in case an action should be executed alongside another (decline transaction, notify customer), the only...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Builder should be able to see the content of a flow

Today if you are not the author of a skill flow, you cannot see its content. You cannot see how it has been created and what other skills tools it is using. It would be nice if, based on your role, you could at least see the content of a skill flow.
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement more granularity processing on "CORRELID" to force more parallelism at Q Apply

We have an application with a high criticality and high workload running Q Replication in a bidirectional mode.This application uses CICS transactions, TSO Batch, Java Batch, local zWAS and distributed transactions as well.And because batch jobs c...

Add custom variables in Planning Analytics Workspace TI process editor

Currently, the TI process editor in PAW doesn't allow you to add custom variables, which is available in Architect. Although these can be defined in the script, having metadata and data variables defined with the data source variables enhances rea...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Start Excel exclusively with Perspectives or PAx

You told me that it is not possible to have 2 shortcuts on the same computer with these characteristics: 1) starting Excel with Perspectives and without PAx 2) starting Excel with PAx and without Perspectives Only user interventions in Excel/optio...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration